Oh, please, give us a break – a movie intermission? Oct 18, 2008
Rather than an intermission, the two pictures were divided by custom-made trailers and ads, all created by filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. But what about a 3-or even 4-hour film that isn't two films in one, a la Che or Grindhouse. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People Oct 17, 2008
Apart from Abrams, for whom he also co-starred in Mission: Impossible III, Pegg is buddies with Quentin Tarantino and comedy super-producer Judd Apatow. So to play an ambitious guy who inadvertently points out showbiz foibles tickled his fancy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Backseat Dance Oct 17, 2008
John Hughes' "Sixteen Candles" is to this movie's writer-director Sean Anders what John Woo movies are to Quentin Tarantino. You could divide teen movies into those that show kids as they are and those that show them as they wish they were. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Madonna and Guy to divorce Oct 17, 2008
Ritchie made his name with 1998's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," a London gangster movie hailed by critics, who called him the British version of U.S. director Quentin Tarantino. He continued the successful directing style with "Snatch" and "Revolver," but he bombed with "Swept Away" in 2002, which featured his wife. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Guy Ritchie's rise to fame Oct 16, 2008
During his initial flush of success, some critics branded the director, now 40, the British Quentin Tarantino. The director has been with Madonna for ten years. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Movie-making duo makes horror flicks that empower women Oct 16, 2008
Neither Shearer nor Puller are looking to become the next Quentin Tarantino. "We made them for ourselves, just as sort of a hobby kind of thing," Shearer says of the movies. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Indies: No Credit Roll Oct 16, 2008
While some have pointed to the studio's enlisting of partners - such as Universal Studios for the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film "Inglorious Bastards" - as evidence of its financial problems, Bob simply labeled the move "prudent business sense.". Part of the reason the rumors about financial troubles at the Weinstein Co. haven't gone away is because the studio has yet to produce a really big hit since its founding three years ago: the horror flick "1408" has been its best box office performer,... (New York Post -- Business)
Angelina Jolie buys knife for seven-year-old son Oct 14, 2008
After spells in the UK, US and France, they will spend the next few months in Germany, where Pitt is filming Quentin Tarantino war film Inglorious Bastards. But Jolie insisted that the clan love their nomadic lifestyle: "It's part of how I want to raise them. If you tell them we're getting on a plane tomorrow, they're all excited to pack their bags, and if you say we're not coming back for months, they won't bat an eye. I think they see the world as a home.". (Telegraph.co.uk)
Stars dish on their romantic lives at Style Awards Oct 14, 2008
By Dan Steinberg, AP. Sopranos alumna Jamie-Lynn Siegler was evasive about whether Entourage's Jerry Ferrera is more than a friend. (USA Today -- Life)
Bush role is Brolin's latest on surge to stardom Oct 14, 2008
Rodriguez cast Brolin in "Planet Terror," part of the "Grindhouse" double-feature he made with Quentin Tarantino. In fall 2007, Brolin had choice supporting roles in Haggis' war-on-terror drama "In the Valley of Elah" and Scott's crime tale "American Gangster." Then he starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem in "No Country," playing a wily Texan on the run with a fortune in drug money in the Academy Award best-picture winner. (The Trentonian, NJ)
RocknRolla Review Oct 10, 2008
Especially since all of his films except Swept Away can be broken down into components borrowed from the considerably more sophisticated oevures of David Mamet and Quentin Tarantino. Here, I can't say I didn't find the film unpleasant enough to mind spending an afternoon watching it unfold. (IGN FilmForce)
RocknRolla: Facing the perils of disorganized crime Oct 10, 2008
There are large English hoods who talk like refugees from a Quentin Tarantino project ("It's tasty and exotic," says the villain, trying. his first lychee. (National Post)
IGN Presents Two Clive Classics Oct 8, 2008
The New Beverly, itself a Los Angeles landmark, regularly screens double features in conjunction with acclaimed filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth and Edgar Wright, and has also played host to festivals programmed by industry luminaries like Joe Dante, Diablo Cody, and Seth Green. IGN Presents launched to a rousing success with a double feature of two classic 1980s sci-fi movies, Explorers and Flight of the Navigator. (IGN FilmForce)
David Archuleta gets a manager Oct 8, 2008
Hollywood Insider Blog. David Archuleta has signed with Azoff Management, the career-launching (and often sustaining) music powerhouse that counts The Eagles, Christina Aguilera, Neil Diamond, and, most recently, among its clients. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Mike Myers 'Thrilled' To Work With Quentin Tarantino, Play A British General In 'Inglorious Bastards' Oct 3, 2008
Mike Myers 'Thrilled' To Work With Quentin Tarantino, Play A British General In 'Inglorious Bastards. He has such a complete vision of how he wants it to go,' Myers says of director. (VHI.com -- Music News)
The Godfather is the don of Empire's top 500 film poll Sep 25, 2008
Empire polled more than 150 directors, including Quentin Tarantino and Mike Leigh, as well as 50 film critics and more than 10,000 members of the public. This summer's biggest hit, The Dark Knight, unsurprisingly made the top 20 - the only film from the 21st century to do so - and there were places in the top 60 for all three Lord of the Rings films. (guardian.co.uk)
The Godfather named 'best movie' Sep 25, 2008
Directors including Quentin Tarantino and Mike Leigh took part in the poll. Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Singin' in the Rain, Pulp Fiction and Fight Club made up the rest of the top 10. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci, Coliseum, London Sep 23, 2008
The consequences are a little like Quentin Tarantino going to work on Ricky Gervais's Extras ("Are you 'avin' a laff?"). "Please see me as human," pleads Christopher Purves's Tony, his bright blue suit and silly horn-rimmed glasses making that a somewhat optimistic prospect. (Independent)
I Like to Watch Sep 21, 2008
Doesn't that sound like some nefarious double agent from a Quentin Tarantino thriller. "Twenty years ago, my mother asked me to find her biological parents," Dunn tells us via a voice-over at the start of his reality show, (9 p.m. EDT Saturdays on WeTV). (Salon)
Showdown for westerns Sep 20, 2008
Yoshino Kimura and Quentin Tarantino ... Sukiyaki opens with a cameo appearance by Quentin Tarantino, a kindred spirit and fellow genre shaker. (Toronto Star)
Spaghetti eastern rides slapstick horse Sep 20, 2008
Appropriately, it begins with a Quentin Tarantino cameo, in full Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone drag, shooting snakes and talking Shinto temple trash before whisking back in time to a remote Japanese mountain village in the 1300s. Except it's not the 1300s because all the characters in this village are wearing psychedelic variations on classic cowboy gear, with armouries of guns, an old-fashioned frontier saloon, lots of horseflesh and a few women of dubious repute. (The Gazette (Montreal))
Sukiyaki Western Django Sep 19, 2008
The prologue, set against an obviously painted ranch set, features a lantern-jawed gunfighter named Ringo, played by Quentin Tarantino, speaking in the same Japanese accent as the rest of the cast. After shooting up some bad guys he settles down to a meal of sukiyaki and begins a story. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Mini movie reviews Sep 19, 2008
A jumble of influences, "Hell Ride" borrows its jump-around-in-time structure and absurdist wordplay from Quentin Tarantino and its sense of empty spaces and hovering doom from Sergio Leone. All that's missing is those directors' talent. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Crouching tiger, hidden spaghetti western Sep 19, 2008
Exactly what director Takashi Miike was going for with this messy collision of genre and culture is difficult to say, but the presence of Quentin Tarantino in the opening scene gives us a pretty good indication that whatever his end goal, Miike's approach was tongue-in-cheek. Based on a bloody chapter of Japanese history, the movie is a revised interpretation of the Genpei Wars between two rival clans during the 12th century. (National Post)
Fury as actress tells film festival 'I would have joined the IRA' Sep 12, 2008
"The film, which also stars Jim Sturgess as McGartland and Sir Ben Kingsley as his British handler, is not the first to arouse controversy over the activities of the IRA. The actor Mickey Rourke, who sports an IRA tattoo, received approbation for allegedly claiming he donated part of his fee for the 1989 film Francesco to the terrorist group, though the charge was never proved.The controversial comments from McGowan, who had leading roles in Scream (1996), Jawbreaker (1999) and Grindhouse, last... (Independent)
Movie review: 'Righteous Kill' a disappointment Sep 12, 2008
"Inside Man" screenwriter Russell Gewirtz gives De Niro and Pacino a few good lines, including a pop-culture discussion about "The Brady Bunch" that would seem at home in a Quentin Tarantino movie. But Gewirtz also writes a predictable and cliched story, with a killer who leaves really bad poems on the body of his victims ("The old man who the children trust. Unable to control his lust. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.") and bad guys who are so one-dimensionally evil that you wonder why the makeup... (San Francisco Chronicle)
IGN Hosting L.A. Screening Series Sep 4, 2008
In 2007, Quentin Tarantino programmed a full month of obscure genre and exploitation double features to coincide with the release of Grindhouse. Subsequently, Hostel creator Eli Roth, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead filmmaker Edgar Wright, Gremlins and Explorers director Joe Dante, and Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody programmed week-plus series highlighting their favorite films, some of which hadn't been projected on screen in decades. (IGN FilmForce)
American realism's new face Sep 4, 2008
"Sukiyaki Western Django" is an ultraviolent gunslinger opera set in a nowhereland that's partly 11th century rural Japan and partly 19th century Nevada, with a cast of Japanese actors speaking English (with varying degrees of success) alongside a supporting performance by Quentin Tarantino. It's got snatches of "Henry the Sixth," large doses of Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and bits and pieces drawn from Peckinpah's, Leone's and Clint Eastwood's classic westerns. (Salon)
"Burn After Reading": Up in flames? Sep 2, 2008
" I guess the premise of Takashi Miike's goes something like this: Given that the Japanese samurai film and the American (and/or European) western are fundamentally the same genre, and that Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah were all drilling in the same well -- and given that a lot of their movies were ripping off Shakespeare's plots in the first place, with less talking and more killing -- why not boil up all those stories and elements and influences in the same pot and see what... (Salon)
Return of Entourage is Cant Miss TV Sep 1, 2008
So what happens when Japanese cult director Takashi Miike pays homage to Leones A Fistful of Dollars by mixing samurai elements with the American western, adding loads of gun play and bloodshed, and tossing in a supporting role from Quentin Tarantino. The result is Sukiyaki Western Django, a stylish mosh pit of genres designed to thrill. (MSNBC -- Politics)
MFA series focuses on epic age of Russian cinema Aug 31, 2008
Peckinpah earned the sobriquet "Bloody Sam" for the hyper-stylized violence of films like "The Wild Bunch" (1969) and "Straw Dogs" (1971), the latter of which influenced Quentin Tarantino so much that he named his first movie after it. The retrospective's programmer, David Pendleton, said he hopes the series will dispel the prevalent conception of Peckinpah as a violence junkie. (Boston Globe)
Coens coast into festival spotlight Aug 30, 2008
The brothers' mash-up style has since been copied by everyone from Quentin Tarantino (whose Reservoir Dogs didn't arrive until 1992) to Judd Apatow. Always gorgeously shot by the world's foremost cinematographers, the Coens' movies live in the odd corners where bland meets inexplicable, and are peopled by eccentrics with odd enthusiasms: the stormily sobbing policewoman (Holly Hunter) who pines for a baby in Raising Arizona; the mild-mannered businessman (Tim Robbins) who dreams up an idea for... (Globe and Mail)
The Best Crazy Japanese Western Ever Made Aug 30, 2008
The all-Japanese cast, augmented by Quentin Tarantino in two cameo roles, learned their English dialogue phonetically and attack their lines as if the words were small furry animals that need to be beaten into submission ... While the presence of Quentin Tarantino in the cast invokes comparisons to Kill Bill, Miike's movie is far more self-assured. (Slate)
'Sukiyaki Western Django': Takeout, By Kurt Loder Aug 30, 2008
Kaori Momoi and Quentin Tarantino in "Sukiyaki Western Django" (First Look) ... Quentin Tarantino appears in ... This is why his appearances on screen are usually greeted with ripples of fond laughter no matter what role he may be attempting to play, he can only ever be one character: Quentin Tarantino. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Lost treasures Aug 29, 2008
Director Mark Hartley Stars Quentin Tarantino, Brian Trenchard-Smith Rated MA15. Out now. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
East Meets Eastwood For A Fistful Of Yen Aug 29, 2008
The promotion for the Japanese movie "Sukiyaki Western Django" would have us believe that Quentin Tarantino has a lead role. Actually, he has two cameos: one at the start and the other about an hour later. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
In a flash, Eva has it covered Aug 28, 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. get the sluggos out, Eva Mendes is planning a visit to Bondi Beach. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Not Quite Hollywood Aug 28, 2008
At least we have guest expert Quentin Tarantino, displaying a subject knowledge that would put most local critics to shame. Not everybody loves Tarantino, but few could deny that in Not Quite Hollywood he puts in one of his most delightful screen performances, doubling the film's energy level whenever he shows up. (The Age)
The ultimate Japanese Shakespeare spaghetti western! Aug 28, 2008
"Sukiyaki Western Django" is an ultraviolent gunslinger opera set in a nowhereland that's partly 11th century rural Japan and partly 19th century Nevada, with a cast of Japanese actors speaking English (with varying degrees of success) alongside a supporting performance by Quentin Tarantino ... Do you imagine Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards" as a half-campy, half-fatalistic violence-palooza with a racial subtext, plenty of cigar-chomping masculine humor and a brief interlude involving... (Salon)
The Screening Room's top 10 movie stunts Aug 26, 2008
"Deathproof" (Quentin Tarantino, 2007) Stunt: Car chase on bonnet Stuntwoman: Zo Bell. Don't Miss. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Highlights of Hollywood's fall, holiday schedule Aug 25, 2008
With Quentin Tarantino. SURFER, DUDE: A surfer (Matthew McConaughey) rides a wave of chaos in his life. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Conventions up wattage with celebrity star power Aug 25, 2008
But it'll be pretty hard to outshine the likes of Chevy Chase, Ben Affleck, Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Sheryl Crow and Daryl Hannah - just a few of the big names expected to make appearances at panels, concerts and fundraisers this week ... Daryl Hannah, Quentin Tarantino, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, Kal Penn, Rosario Dawson, Annette Bening, Stephanie Mills, Boyz II Men, John Larroquette, Spike Lee, Biz Markie, Willie Nelson, Charlize Theron, David Crosby, Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
'Boobs, pubes and tubes' Aug 23, 2008
The video-store-clerk-turned-uber-director Quentin Tarantino has long been a fan of Ozploitation. When he was in Sydney for the premiere of the first Kill Bill in 2003, Tarantino told the Herald that he was a particular fan of director Brian Trenchard-Smith's films, including The Man From Hong Kong and Dead-End Drive-In. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Star power fades when it comes to politics Aug 21, 2008
Ben Affleck, Susan Sarandon, Quentin Tarantino and countless others from La La Land will be in Denver for next week's Democratic National Convention, which may be favoured with performances by Kanye West, Usher and Wyclef Jean. The Grateful Dead have risen to play a gig called Deadheads For Obama. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Dems Seeing Stars Aug 19, 2008
The Creative Coalition, a non-partisan group, is bringing a boatload of stars with them including Annette Bening (which could mean that hubby Warren Beatty is nearby), Matthew Modine, Kerry Washington, Joey Pantoliano, Susan Sarandon, Tony Goldwyn, new co-president Tim Daly, Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence O'Donnell. So many celebs are coming that I've heard Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson is considering making a documentary about the whole experience. (Fox News)
Business travel: Movement at the station Aug 19, 2008
There's a scene in the Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction where Mia (Uma Thurman) asks. So an employer has been hauled over the coals by the Workplace Ombudsman for swearing at. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Grey Goose Entertainment and Sundance Channel Announce Talent Pairings for Fourth Season of 'Iconoclasts' Premiering October 16 at 10 PM ET/PT Aug 19, 2008
Season two featured: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton; dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and chef Alice Waters; filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and singer/songwriter Fiona Apple; actress Isabella Rossellini and inventor Dean Kamen; music great Paul Simon and producer Lorne Michaels; and comedian Dave Chappelle and poet Maya Angelou. Season three featured: actor/filmmaker Sean Penn and author/adventurer Jon Krakauer; singer/songwriter Alicia Keys and actress Ruby Dee; actor Mike... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Mike Myers Joins Inglorious Bastards Aug 17, 2008
In one of the more strange casting announcements I ve heard in a while, Mike Myers has been cast in Quentin Tarantino s upcoming Inglorious Bastards in a small role as a British General named Ed French who assists in the plan to take down the Nazis. Considering all of the comedic names rumored for this movie, like Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, and most recently Simon Pegg who s in talks, and BJ Nowak, (along with Brad Pitt, by the way); you would think that this wouldn t surprise me, but man, Mike... (Geeks of Doom)
Group wants to convert Astrodome into sound stage, movie studio Aug 17, 2008
Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez filmed portions of Grindhouse at the Austin studio. The movie studio idea isn't the only idea for the Harris County Domed Stadium. (KHOU.com, TX)
'Tropic Thunder' brings issues about cinema and race back to the fore Aug 17, 2008
Or that a too-cool-for-school director such as Quentin Tarantino, the filmmaking embodiment of Norman Mailer's "The White Negro," should act as movieland's soul brother No. 1 by getting his groove on with "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown". Despite, or perhaps because of, Obamamania, our so-called post-racial society has rarely been more race-conscious. (Los Angeles Times)
Myers in on the Q.T. Aug 16, 2008
The film was written and is being directed by Quentin Tarantino, and borrows its name from Enzo Castellari's 1970s war film of the same name, although it is not intended to be a direct remake. Rather, Tarantino intends his film to be a broader homage to the exploitation films that inspired him, and follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers who band together to kill Nazis. (IGN FilmForce)
Larrikin streak Aug 16, 2008
LAUNCHING his film Kill Bill in Sydney a few years back, Quentin Tarantino paid tribute to one of his favourite Australian directors, Brian Trenchard-Smith. The assembled bigwigs from what's left of the local film industry were shocked. (The Australian)
'Tropic Thunder': Say What? By Kurt Loder Aug 14, 2008
(Film scholar and critic Dave Kehr has pointed out that Downey's black GI seems to be modeled on the one played by blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson in "The Inglorious Bastards," the 1978 Italian movie that's currently on the verge of being remade by Quentin Tarantino. . (VHI.com -- Music News)
World's Smallest Desktop Revealed Aug 13, 2008
Quentin Tarantino goes for the ultimate 60s B-grade compliment by making an ode to Blaxploitation. Since hitting the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 2002, The Vines have had a.. (Smart House)
Barack Obama to continue to court celebrity vote Aug 10, 2008
Hollywood royalty, including Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Warren Beatty, Susan Sarandon, Forrest Whitaker and Scarlett Johansson, will also be in Denver, as well as singers Kanye West and Wyclef Jean. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones may also put in an appearance. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Inglorious Bastard Found Aug 8, 2008
UK, August 6, 2008 - Quentin Tarantino may have found his first Inglorious Bastard in the shape of horror director Eli Roth. According to Variety, the Hostel helmer is in talks to play Nazi-hunter Sgt. Donnie Donowitz -- a role that should suit the Red Sox-loving Roth well as the character's weapon of choice is a baseball bat. (IGN FilmForce)
Pop Tarts: Tara Reid Rejected, Kim Kardashian to Battle Mom on 'Dancing With the Stars' Aug 8, 2008
Speaking of upcoming projects, rumors have been running rampant that Spears has been lined up to play a killer lesbian stripper in Quentin Tarantino s upcoming remake of the 1965 cult film "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" However, reps from Britney s and Quentin s camps denied to "Access Hollywood" that there was any truth to the tale. Meow: 'Pussy Cat Dolls' Producer Peeved With 'The Hills. (Fox News)
Film review: 'Hell' is for ... audiences that are cursed Aug 8, 2008
Much of the blame goes to Quentin Tarantino, who executive-produced this latest foray into Nostalgia for Amateurism (his last was the tedious Death Proof ). Hell Ride was born on the set of Tarantino's Kill Bill and contains many of its actors, including Bishop, the ever-squinting Michael Madsen and David Carradine (son of biker-movie king John Carradine), who probably signed on to break up the monotony of doing Tums commercials. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Britney set to star as lesbian killer in new Quentin Tarantino movie Aug 7, 2008
Britney Spears is gearing up to play a killer lesbian in Quentin Tarantino s remake of the cult classic Faster Pussycat ... New role: Britney Spears, pictured here in LA yesterday, is being lined up to star in Quentin Tarantino's next film. (Daily Mail)
Tom Cruise: New Days of 'Thunder' Aug 7, 2008
But Stiller has done for Cruise what Quentin Tarantino did for John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction." He s resuscitated him through dance. (This theory of career revival is acted out now on TV in "Dancing with the Stars."). (Fox News)
Britney won't play killer lesbian stripper Aug 7, 2008
Britney Spears might have kissed Madonna at the VMAs in 2003, but dont expect her to play a killer lesbian stripper in Quentin Tarantinos upcoming film ... A source close to Quentin Tarantino told Access, There is no truth to this. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Britney 'to play lesbian killer stripper' in Tarantino movie... Aug 7, 2008
Britney Spears to play lesbian killer in Quentin Tarantino film - Telegraph ... Britney Spears to play lesbian killer in Quentin Tarantino film ... Britney Spears is being lined up to play a killer lesbian stripper in the Quentin Tarantino's next movie, it has been reported. (The Drudge Report)
Spears to play Tarantino's 'Pussycat?' Aug 7, 2008
Quentin Tarantino is a busy man. First, there was news of his wining and dining Brad Pitt to star in 'Inglorious Bastards. (Variety)
Pineapple Express Aug 6, 2008
There, director Quentin Tarantino used the comic banter as an adrenalin shot (literally, at one sharp point) straight to the heart of the bloody action. This script wants to reverse that process, and so the plot sees the potheads stumbling into a vicious turf war involving a corrupt cop and a pair of rival drug lords. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
High school or the movies? One dad makes a deal Aug 6, 2008
He figured he could go the Martin Scorsese route deep immersion in the art at film school or the Quentin Tarantino path learning how to direct movies by watching them, then going out and making them. He chose the Tarantino course, turning down the film-school offer so he could hit the streets of Toronto and make his movie, armed with everything he learned from his dad in the Film Club. (USA Today -- News)
